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Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good
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Open source sovereignty gets down to the boring business of making it work
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US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
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Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative
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Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
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Europe's AI ambitions rest on somebody else's supply chain
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Ask HPE and NVIDIA the AI data question you cannot ask in public
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GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
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Digital sovereignty sounds great until you try ditching your suppliers
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The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech
Systems
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Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall
SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors
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'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens'
Techies tiptoed around server to keep it working as company sank
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Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet
They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs
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IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem
90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat
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Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit in Meta's Prometheus supercluster, waiting for a failure
And other fun facts about how Zuckercorp aims to keep a million GPUs running long enough to train a model
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TSMC sends scouts to check whether America's datacenters can deliver
Silicon giant budgets up to $64B for expansion while keeping an eye on construction progress and power supplies
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New motherboards, old RAM, plenty of life left in yesterday's PCs
DDR4 makes a comeback as component costs rise, while Linux offers an escape from forced upgrades
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Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout of next-gen Azure Maia AI accelerator racks
96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027
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AMD unveils Helion racks for AI agents at OCP summit
CPU-only and mixed CPU/GPU configurations due from partners in November
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To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work
While three bosses looked on, our hero made a very expensive mistake
EVENTS
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Data sovereignty without compromise
Sovereignty has been a buzzword for years. Plenty of talk, but a lot less action.
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Data Sovereignty By Design
If data location is only part of the answer, this event will help you think more clearly about what genuine control requires and where to focus next.
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Data Sovereignty By Design
If data location is only part of the answer, this event will help you think more clearly about what genuine control requires and where to focus next.
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Escaping the Postgres Optimization Treadmill
Learn why high-volume, time-series workloads can push PostgreSQL beyond the limits of routine optimization.
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Lessons from deploying high-performance & resilient AI fabrics at hyperscalers, frontier model builders and neo-clouds
This session covers key AI data center trends, MRC/UEC architectures, customer requirements and how HPE Juniper Networking addresses those needs.
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The Data Leadership Forum on AI
Every organization is racing to deliver value from AI—yet most are hitting the same wall: the data.
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A Flexible Path from VMware to Nutanix on Azure
Nutanix experts discuss VMware customer challenges and key considerations for planning a migration to the public cloud.
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What it takes to make your life sciences data queryable, governed and ready to share
The demand for life sciences data has never been higher, and neither has the bar for delivering it.
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AI Isn’t the New Threat. It’s the New Clock.
In June, two compromised Azure service principals took 15 hours to map a tenant, then about seven minutes to delete most of its storage.
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The hidden cost of file friction: Why enterprise storage needs a rethink
Join The Register and LucidLink to explore how organizations can rethink file access, storage, and active data for modern workflows.
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We Found the Secrets. Now What? An Introduction to TruffleHog's Secrets Revocation Program
TruffleHog Enterprise scans nearly 2 petabytes of public data every month, finding exposed API keys, tokens, and other credentials.
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The Enterprise Platform for the AI Era: Unifying VMs, Kubernetes, and Agentic AI
Join Nutanix experts to explore how NCI and NKP simplify operations, optimize GPU investments, and power AI across datacenter, cloud, and edge.
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Fifty First Prompts: What to Do When Your LLM Suffers From Daily Amnesia
Your LLM is encyclopedic about the world and blank about your organization.
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Business of the Year: Organized Cybercrime.
If there were an award for the industry making the biggest moves this year, organized cybercrime would be a top contender.
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Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World
Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.
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Data Sovereignty in the AI Era
As an AI practitioner you may be wrestling with how to maximize the value of AI at scale without exposing your organization's most sensitive data .
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Modernizing File Infrastructure for a Distributed World
Distributed teams are generating more unstructured file data than ever, while many enterprises continue to rely on legacy workflows.
Next Platform | HYPERSCALERS
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Nvidia Simulates Its Way Into Google's Magic State Cultivation Party
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Cadence, Nvidia Unveil New AI Models To Put EDA On Autopilot
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APC Says Let There Be Light, With Raft Of Standards To Speed Up Photonics Manufacturing
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Three Physical Walls Are Hitting AI Datacenter Infrastructure at the Same Time - And the Compound Effects Are Worse
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Infosec
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Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug
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UK pentester 'killa' claims $2K Bitcoin prize in PHP2Shell capture-the-flag contest
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Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing
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We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue
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UK Biobank back online soon, months after someone tried to sell 500k people's data on Alibaba
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Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create
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Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up
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Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
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There's a third PHP2Shell bug, but it won't get an emergency fix
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Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
Off Prem
MORE OFF PREM
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Europe’s cloud sovereignty rules could do more harm than good
Report warns that sovereignty is being used to favor selected national providers and could stifle pan-Europe clouds
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Ukrainian drone attack takes out Russian datacenter
Putin this cloud region back into operation might not be possible, says Yandex
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Microsoft defines its Azure instance lifecycle, without any info about timing
Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen
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AWS turns its best practice framework into an agent that recommends cloudy reconfigs
Possesses powers equivalent to an 'experienced architect' and will happily make cost-saving suggestions
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Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work
If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...
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Azure maintenance mess disrupted hybrid clouds, VPNs, cloudy VMware services
Microsoft broke its own cloud but isn’t sure how
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Civo plots 40 edge datacenters to power Britain's sovereign AI
First site is due in Hertfordshire next March, with Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and a longer-term 1 GW ambition
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Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
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AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth
Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap
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AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users
Improved signup experience for ‘AI builders’ hides complexity and includes spending cap
Who Me?
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'Let's just shove a bigger fan in there and see what happens'
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Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk
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To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work
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Buyer missed one option and got 1% of the cable they needed
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Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data
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Boss bought cheap 'printer' from a catalog and was left without a leg to stand on
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Tech team stood and laughed at colleague who pressed the wrong off button
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Techie sent to fix Nobel Prize winner’s PC almost set it on fire
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Techie with three months' experience was sent in as the Cisco expert and proceeded to blow everything up
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Batch file automated a clean-up job, then fouled itself by deleting the wrong directory
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Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
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Demoralized developer's desperate hack came back to haunt him on LinkedIn
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IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
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Manager showed off his DOS prowess – with a command that wiped data
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Comment in code read 'Dear future me, sorry I wrote this'
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User crippled a network while trying to learn Nmap
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Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code
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Sysadmin broke hardware worth more than he made in a month – and lied his way out of the mess
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How dare you stop data loss – that's not your job!
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Chinese e-tailer claimed 14-inch box stretched the size of a 9-inch tablet
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Consultant mistakenly deleted a ton of data – but reported it as a bug
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Techie expensed a bag of oranges and then juiced up a stupid security incident
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Under-trained techie didn't claim overtime for mistakenly failing to phone it in
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Backup script ingested an accidental asterisk and deleted everything
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Lab worker built a fake PC to nuke his lunch
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Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
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PowerPoint punishment sent users into an infinite loop after lunch
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'Invisible mouse' made a mess of PC rebuild
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IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it
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The developer who came in from the cold and melted a mainframe
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Security contractor blew the whistle on support crew's viral indifference
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Junior disobeyed orders and tried untested feature during a live robot demo
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Brilliant backups that kept data alive for ages landed web developer in big trouble
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Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
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Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction
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Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell
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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead
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Tech support chap invented fake fix for non-problem and watched it spread across the office
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Techie's one ring brought darkness by shorting a server
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Marketing 'genius' destroyed a printer by trying to fix a paper jam
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ATM maintenance tech broke the bank by forgetting to return a key
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Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause
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Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble
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New boss was bad, his attitude was ugly, so the tech team pranked him good
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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming
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Untrained techie broke the rules, made a mistake, and found a better way to work
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Web dev's crawler took down major online bookstore by buying too many books
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Dev's last-day-of-contract code helped to crash app used by 350,000 people
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Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
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Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver
Networks
MORE NETWORKS STORIES
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Work to protect DNS from quantum decryption attacks is speeding up
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UK threatens subsea cable saboteurs with 14 years behind bars
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Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources
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London’s mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe’s capital league
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ICANN testing tech to let law enforcement access non-public WHOIS info
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Broadcom Wi-Fi bug turns sweet 16, still lets strangers hijack your router
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ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency
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Time Lords kill leap seconds, before they become the new Y2K bug
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Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggable
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Intel optimizes IPv6 networking into nothingness, say users
Offbeat
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Open source keyboard lets you swap parts like magnetic Lego bricks
Every key is its own module, and its designer tells us the sky's the theoretical limit on the size of the frankenboard you can build
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Reg readers land on 'Binface' as name for UK space cleanup mission
Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?
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Beware the claw: Do you want to win the bunny or reboot Android?
Classic arcade game put to shame by judgemental Bugdroid
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Singapore boffins weave a GUI into fabric, and it's machine washable too
For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century
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Java crashes the departure board at Tyne and Wear Metro
Train times remain on show as an elderly Windows dialog demands attention
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Happiness is the next AI KPI if Oxford boffins have their way
Researchers say public subsidies for AI should be repaid in wellbeing, not just economic growth
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Amazon makes vague commitment to unproven nuclear tech to power Indiana datacenters
Partner X-energy has not built a single working reactor yet
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Uber dodges £340M cabbie lawsuit after drivers miss legal deadline
Black cab drivers accused ride-hailing giant of misleading London's transport regulator, but judge says they left it too late to sue
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In space, 'We've gone from exploration to exploitation,' says original Voyager team member
Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth
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Museum exhibit reveals the intricate workings of a knackered Dell
When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom
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Oh no, what happened to my OOHPod? Windows command prompt puts in a surprise appearance
Pop quiz: somebody left a command shell logged in. What do you do?
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Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub
Aaron Ardiri opened his old development archive after discovering enthusiasts were still improving apps for the platform
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YouTuber built 30-frame-per-second grayscale Game Boy, then open sourced it for all e-paper displays
Not afraid of custom waveforms frying your e-paper? Download it from GitHub and give it a shot on your stock screen today
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Royal Navy goes fishing for suppliers to build its Type 93 robot submarine
Preliminary notice seeks XLUUV builders, payload makers and AI developers, with Excalibur and Herne the obvious candidates
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Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee
Things got weird, but there's a lesson to be learned: Don't trust a bot to negotiate for you
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Leap seconds face judgment day as time lords prepare to vote
Proposal would let UTC drift an hour from Earth's rotation, sparing computer systems awkward adjustments for centuries
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Fire up that iPhone 1 emulation and party like it's 2007
Browser-based fun to remember a time before Apple's annual cash grab became a thing
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Welcome to the lovely landlocked land of Luxembork, where the fares are free, and the terminals are techno
Tick, tick, tick, tick, ticket, ticket, tick tick
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Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's
25 years after taking flight, a surviving packet from the world's most impractical network has attracted a $4,000 bid
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US Navy bets another $150M on fighter drone that skips the runway
Shield AI matches the funding as autonomous X-BAT heads toward flight testing later this year
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NASA taps DoE to help it build nuclear space reactors
Space agency claims steady progress on lunar reactor plans, but offers little evidence to back it up
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Microsoft unveils 'Surace' Laptop Ultra
What the f?
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It's a bird, it's a plane...well, more of a spinning parachute, but really it's a droppable robot boat
The ALBATROSS has landed
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Starlink's plan to avoid orbital near-misses: Ephemeris sharing
Hang on. How about not chucking tens of thousands more satellites into space?
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Permanent daylight saving time could be a public health time bomb
Trump pushes the US to adopt pDST, but Canadian researchers say darker mornings come with costs for sleep, learning, and productivity
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Only the finest Swedish Bork will do for Stockholm station
No, this is not GRUB of the meatball variety
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Security researcher claims they found KVM guest-host escape flaw
Firecracker MicroVMs, which started at AWS, seem to be the problem
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Musk follows Trump's lead, swaps AI for SI in SpaceX rebrand
Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply
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Spies, prime ministers, and balls: The BBC Domesday project @ 40
The Centre for Computing History gathers the minds behind the project and the ones keeping it alive today
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Clever database, but can it run Doom?
Reg hack learns the meaning of 'Be careful what you wish for'
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Flight delayed? So are these codec updates
A slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport
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Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes
So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda
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YouTube lunatic designed and 3D printed a working mechanical calculator
If you can't afford a Curta, we still don't recommend trying this: It'll eat up months of your life and all the filament you have
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Drunk Van Halen fan called Microsoft support and demanded to speak to Gates
A broken Java applet had one FrontPage user ready for an Eruption
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Airbus gets a new freighter – and its giant door – into the air for the first time
The A350F is apparently good for carrying servers
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Boeing's Calamity Capsule gets another shot at the ISS taxi business
Starliner-1 could fly by January, with astronauts to follow by 2028 if all goes well
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Starship finally makes orbit but engine trouble cuts the victory lap short
SpaceX deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites before bringing its planned ten-hour flight home after three
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What eldritch horror lurks behind Heathrow's information screens?
A triptych of airport bork awaits the unwary passenger
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Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
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Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It's super effective!
Ohio man planted a device on a delivery van to follow scarce trading card stock and caught a year of probation
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iPhone 18 Pro benchmark boosted by giving it a cold drink
3x the vapor-chamber surface area can only do so much; luckily the fridge helped with sustained performance
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Discordians now subject to whims of new age verification technology
Discord users asked to prove they’re adults get less intrusive options
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Robot dog ran a marathon on one charge and lived to publish the paper
Two years later, creators explain how lightweight hardware and reinforcement learning helped it go the distance
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A 1980s PDP-11 is still running Unix – and now you can watch
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
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BT Tower's rooftop pool plan brings swimmers back down to earth
MCR's hotel proposal puts facility on a lower building, while public access to upper floors set to be restored
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UK’s uncrewed experimental sub shows it can fire torpedoes
XV Excalibur hailed as first US or UK underwater drone to let one off in tests
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Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
Meet ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘globalist scheme’ – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it
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NASA gives SpaceX a billion reasons to keep flying Crew Dragon
Crew-15 through Crew-17 shore up astronaut access to ISS while Starliner's future remains uncertain
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It's raining, the transport isn't working, and now an Android app wants to walk out in solidarity
Please release me, let me close...
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British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
Surveillance and training drone systems will come through three UK suppliers, though some are built overseas
Science
BOFH
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BOFH: I talked to Claude and he says you're an idiot
You know what's really sick? Getting to the pub on time on a Friday
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BOFH: Smells like team spirit
In which BOFH and PFY meet 1990s heroes who know how to deal with Bosses
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BOFH: The Helldesk opens its third eye and ascends to a higher plane of troubleshooting
Putting the 'om' in computing
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BOFH: Oh no! The CMS ate 500 pages of corporate documentation
How could such a terrible tragedy have occurred?
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BOFH: Schrödinger's petty cash puts us in a very awkward superposition
Why oh why are the accountants stricter than the IRS and HMRC put together?
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BOFH: How our Covid ransomware protocol's Y2K blockchain lowered uptime
Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza
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BOFH: This printer engineer knows every trick in the book
But so does this customer
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BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand
Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light
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BOFH: Amnesty means never having to say you're sorry
There's no I in team, but there is one in insurance fraud
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BOFH: For one ambitious security type, chaos is a ladder
Mission Control sends its regards
